This classic novel is Baldwin’s first major work. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, and resonating symbolic power, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935.

On his 100th birthday, Allan Karlsson bolts from his retirement home. No ordinary retiree, Allan is a former explosives expert, whose life has bumped up against some of the most famous figures of the 20th century, with consequences both unintended and hilarious. This book was a bestseller in Europe before reaching the U.S.

onstance Kopp doesn’t quite fit the mold. She towers over most men, has no interest in marriage or domestic affairs, and has been isolated from the world since a family secret sent her and her sisters into hiding fifteen years ago. One day a belligerent and powerful silk factory owner runs down their buggy, and a dispute over damages turns into a war of bricks, bullets. When the sheriff enlists her help in convicting the men responsible, Constance is forced to confront her past and defend her family — and she does it in a way that few women of 1914 would have dared.

Five voices, spanning four centuries--a young puritan woman, mathematician Alan Turing, a Jewish refugee, an isolated young girl, and an Artificial Intelligence mastermind--are linked by a need for companionship and connection. Their stories weave together in an exploration of technology, communication, and what it means to be human.

"Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us." Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer for General Non-Fiction, Sixth Extinction... examines how and why human beings have altered life on earth in a way no species has before.

Barcelona, 1945 -- Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother’s face. To console him, Daniel’s father, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a repository for books forgotten by the world. Daniel selects a novel, The Shadow of the Wind by Julian Carax, and sets out to find the rest of Carax’s works. To his shock, Daniel discovers that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written and he has opened a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets.

Finding themselves unexpectedly in New York's turn-of-the -19th-century immigrant community, a golem from a Polish shtetl and a centuries old jinni from the Syrian Desert become unlikely soul mates while risking discovery and destruction for their unique supernatural powers.

In 1918, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia taking a job as the lighthouse keeper on a remote island, where the supply boat comes only four times a year. Tom’s young wife, Isabel suffers two miscarriages and one stillbirth. After years of grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat washed up on shore carrying a dead man and a living baby. Against Tom’s judgment, they claim the child as their own, but a rift begins to grow. Upon returning to the mainland they are reminded that there are other people in the world…and one of them is desperate to find her lost baby.

The monster showed up after midnight. As they do. This monster, though, is something different. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth. From the final story idea of Siobhan Dowd, whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself, Patrick Ness spins a nuanced and moving tale.

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